This timely volume explores a wide range of American and Canadian literary texts that engage with moral/ethical dilemmas, from William Dean Howells's reformist novel Annie Kilburn to Edward Sapir's intermedial poems, to Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy, to Jonathan Franzen's bestselling The Corrections. Many of the Contributors, among them Winfried Fluck and Noëlle McAfee, also engage with some of the most prominent voices in contemporary theoretical debates about ethics (Habermas, Levinas, Honneth, Arendt, Sen, Kristeva). weiterlesen